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An Update on Ohio Lethal Injection Litigation

By Steve Hall

The AP report, "Condemned Ohio inmate joins injection challenge," is via the Dayton Daily News.A federal judge has allowed an inmate scheduled to die Feb. 4 for killing a convenience store owner to challenge Ohio's lethal injection system.The decision Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Frost does not delay next week's execution of 37-year-old Mark Brown.Brown has joined a lawsuit filed last month that challenges the state's new injection procedure, which includes a never-before-tried backup method that injects drugs directly into muscles.Brown has asked Frost to delay his execution while he makes his injection challenge, but the judge hasn't ruled on that request.Earlier coverage from Ohio begins with this post; related posts are in the lethal injection category index...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 29, 2010 (boomark / email).